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Article: Residential reasoning: how childless older adults choose between ageing in place (AIP) and institutionalisation in rural China
Title | Residential reasoning: how childless older adults choose between ageing in place (AIP) and institutionalisation in rural China |
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Keywords | long-term care childlessness rural ageing decision-making poverty |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://titles.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=ASO |
Citation | Ageing and Society, 2021, Epub 2021-05-28 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The decision of whether to grow old in one's home (also referred to as ageing in place (AIP)) or relocating to an institution is an ongoing negotiation process, which involves residential decisions and adaptation. This research aims to explore how childless older adults in rural China choose between AIP and institutionalisation. Through a qualitative study conducted in rural China among childless older adults, we explored the reasons why they make certain residential choices and how they adapted during the decision process. Twenty-five childless participants (aged 60–83) were interviewed. Findings suggested that they referred to the term ku (literally meaning ‘bitterness’; and a metaphor referring to ‘conducting farming and farm-related activities’) to explain their residential decisions. If a person could endure ku – sustain food and basic living through farming and farm-related activities, they tended to choose to age in place; otherwise, they chose to relocate to institutions. Ku represents a sense of mastery, encompassing the stressfulness and suffering aspect that requires adaptation. Three adaptive strategies were identified: (a) positive reappraising of the negative aspect of ku, (b) routinising ku, and (c) transcending the narrative of ku into a toughness identity. Our findings suggest that childless older adults struggled to achieve residential mastery while making residential decisions, even though a sense of mastery was shaped by the individual and structural constrictions. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/300609 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.026 |
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dc.contributor.author | CHEN, SHZ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lou, VWQ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-18T14:54:27Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-18T14:54:27Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Ageing and Society, 2021, Epub 2021-05-28 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0144-686X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/300609 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The decision of whether to grow old in one's home (also referred to as ageing in place (AIP)) or relocating to an institution is an ongoing negotiation process, which involves residential decisions and adaptation. This research aims to explore how childless older adults in rural China choose between AIP and institutionalisation. Through a qualitative study conducted in rural China among childless older adults, we explored the reasons why they make certain residential choices and how they adapted during the decision process. Twenty-five childless participants (aged 60–83) were interviewed. Findings suggested that they referred to the term ku (literally meaning ‘bitterness’; and a metaphor referring to ‘conducting farming and farm-related activities’) to explain their residential decisions. If a person could endure ku – sustain food and basic living through farming and farm-related activities, they tended to choose to age in place; otherwise, they chose to relocate to institutions. Ku represents a sense of mastery, encompassing the stressfulness and suffering aspect that requires adaptation. Three adaptive strategies were identified: (a) positive reappraising of the negative aspect of ku, (b) routinising ku, and (c) transcending the narrative of ku into a toughness identity. Our findings suggest that childless older adults struggled to achieve residential mastery while making residential decisions, even though a sense of mastery was shaped by the individual and structural constrictions. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://titles.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=ASO | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ageing and Society | - |
dc.rights | Ageing and Society. Copyright © Cambridge University Press. | - |
dc.rights | This article has been published in a revised form in [Journal] [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. | - |
dc.subject | long-term care | - |
dc.subject | childlessness | - |
dc.subject | rural ageing | - |
dc.subject | decision-making | - |
dc.subject | poverty | - |
dc.title | Residential reasoning: how childless older adults choose between ageing in place (AIP) and institutionalisation in rural China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lou, VWQ: wlou@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lou, VWQ=rp00607 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0144686X2100074X | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85106915647 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 322839 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | Epub 2021-05-28 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 19 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000742539100001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |